April 2011 ~ Life Trotting

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Photographic T-Shirt Printing: First Attempt

Got the image from the Internet. It was originally green in color but I just changed them with the color of the paint that I currently have. :) We will be making our final design this weekend. Will post it when its done.

Photographic T-Shirt Printing

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I was late for the art workshop registration last summer so I was not able to attend any of them. Since I badly wanted to do something this summer, I decided to enroll for an art workshop at SM City Iloilo. I was choosing among Oil Painting, Caricature, Graphics Design, and T-Shirt Printing. I decided to enroll in T-Shirt Printing because it has a good potential for business. The lesson started yesterday with Sir Benny Loro and we are going to start the practical workshop later. So I needed to have a design. I wanted to print a logo for the Link Wolves but couldn't think of any. I wanted something for the summer and here's what I found from Google:

We are going to use a silk screen for the printing so I need to have a black and white design. Which means that I have to edit this one. I recently had my laptop reformatted and my technician-colleague didn't install an Adobe Photoshop software! So I had to do it with "Paint" and I ended up deleting the undies/bikini of the girl.lol

I am going to put this one at the top-center portion of the shirt.

April 2 Marks Our 39th

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We had a monthsarry dinner at Bauhinia located at Smallville, Iloilo. The new Smallville 21 hotel looks nice and it gives us an amazing view from our table at Bauhinia. We had our first dinner here in Bauhinia 2-3 years ago and I loved their food back then. So I thought we'd pay a visit once again and it never failed us to satisfy our hunger.

The complimentary peanuts!

Bauhinia Fried Rice

Chicken Inato

Escabecheng Lapu-lapu

Fresh Mango Shake

It was a fancy dinner but it made our 39th month extra special. ☺

nth Time in Boracay Island

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Had a wonderful start for summer this year. Spent 2 nights in Boracay with my colleagues at work last March 25-27. We took a bus from Iloilo to Caticlan, Kalibo. The bus fare as of that time was PhP313/adult. As we arrived at the jetty port, we had to pay for the environmental fee, fast craft fare, and for the terminal fee (not sure if it was really a terminal fee, lol). From the jetty port of Boracay Island, we took a tricycle ride and went to D'mall to look for a place to stay. We settled at Sunwoo Resort which is just a few meters from the beach.

Sunwoo Resort has their own swimming pool and their service is somehow satisfactory. The guy was kind enough to give the family room for just PhP4000 per night. It was originally Php3700, good for 4 pax only and you have to pay PhP500 for each additional person. So that was already a fair deal for the 6 of us (though our other companion didn't stay with us so we were only 5 in the room). We had to pay for the henna stains on the bed sheet (PhP500) and two pillow cases (PhP200 each) though.

First thing we did was to get a henna tattoo! Boracay is a place where tattoos do not make you look like a weirdo, ex-convict, or a bad person. I personally want to have a real tattoo but maybe not this time.lol

Displaying Our Henna Tattoos
With the Cool (Henna) Tattoo Artist (the one with a headset)

I will no longer go into further details with our Boracay Trip but I will share some of the activities we did while we were there:

With the amazing Boracay Phoenix Fire Dancers
at a restaurant which name I forgot

Boracay Showdown at D'Mall
PhP35/40seconds Basketball Shooting
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ATV (All-Terrain Vehicle) Ride
PhP400/person + additional fees at the destination

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At the __ Farm (Forgot the name)
(First stop during the ATV ride)

At the Rooftop of Tanawin Luxury Apartments
With a Beautiful view of Boracay Island

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Beach Bumming
while waiting for the Banana Boat Ride

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Banana Boat Ride (PhP200/person)
we were near the shore so obviously the facial expressions fake!
We were just practicing lol
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Party Parteey!
At Guilly's Island Resto Bar
Boracay's night life is sooo FUN!!!
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Boating (PhP2000/10pax)
It was a bit rainy and the sea was rough. So we were not able to sail around the island and the boatman didn't inform us beforehand. But the pay was still the same! Duh We were tricked by that boatman!